Merry Christmas from the Nemecs!

Merry Christmas Everyone! Hope it was wonderful! Here we are all cute, since we usually look grubby on this blog:


A few pics of the updates:

The chandelier I spray painted... Before:


And after:


The bathroom tile, grouted:


And the upstairs, painted: (it is hard to tell b/c the walls are cream):



As some of you know, I made Adam a special present for Christmas. He is a huge comic fan. And, as some of you know, one of our upstairs bedrooms will be "the comic room". This will be Adam's place for all things comic related. It is where his collection of over 8,000 comic books will live.

Anyway, I thought it would be nice to make him a piece of furniture for his comic room. A place to store his supplies for archiving. So I bought an old night stand, and decoupaged it with Flash comics (Flash is Adam's favorite comic book. Silver age Flash specifically):


Here it is:

(click the photos to see these bigger)


Adam reads the different stories:



So, the upstairs is coming along. One more room to paint, a couple stairs to fix... we're planning to get all new windows up there, and then, CARPET! I can't wait!

More soon --
Carole (& Adam)

Winter Wonderland

Look who arrived in our front yard this weekend! Frosty!

My husband has been coveting a plastic snowman mold to adorn our front yard.
Not one of those fancy animatronic deals, or one of those super huge inflatable things --
a plastic, looks-like-it-is-from-1980 snowman mold.

And he got his wish. Look how happy he is:


This weekend, like always, was a work weekend. Here are some pictures:

Joe gluing down the bathroom tile:


Adam painting. The cream ("antique white") is the color for the whole upstairs:



Me washing the bathroom walls whilst rocking out to Journey (Don't stop! Believin'!):


I also spray painted the chandelier left by the previous owners. From gold:


To silver:



Now we need to rehang it and I need to clean/hang the crystals. Ooo la la. Fancy.

We decided against getting a tree this year for upstairs, since we are still in a state of renovating. However, our old fake tree from the apartment is holding down the fort in the basement:


More to come!
Carole & Adam

Are you dizzy?

Here are some pics of the upstairs bath floor....